"The use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul."
-Herbert Hoover
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"Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as knowing what to do next."
-Herbert Hoover
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"Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next."
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"It is the youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow... that are the aftermath of war."
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"When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when we are at war, we want an uncommon general. It is only when we get into politics that we are satisfied with the common man."
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"Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die."
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"The most positive men are the most credulous."
-Alexander Pope
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"In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs."
-Walter Lippmann
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"No man has any natural authority over his fellow men."
-Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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"Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them."
-Georg C. Lichtenberg
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"Men don't and can't live by exchanging articles, but by producing them. They don't live by trade, but by work. Give up that foolish and vain title of Trades Unions and take that of laborers Unions."
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"Strong women only marry weak men."
-Bette Davis
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